James Farrell
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Farrell is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade at Google, currently focused on Rust for Android after a broad tenure across Android NDK, search experimentation, and video/image search infrastructure. He brings hands-on systems and build expertise—evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like toybox and Android NDK samples where he fixed low-level bugs, plugged memory leaks, and improved CI and formatting checks. His background includes leading ticketing platform engineering for major global events and teaching software engineering courses at Caltech and UCLA, showing both production and pedagogical strengths. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he blends low-level systems proficiency with automation and release engineering skills, and has a knack for quietly improving developer workflows and tooling that pay dividends across large codebases.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at California State University - East BayTorrey Pines High SchoolBA, BA at Reed College
Github Skills (29)
android-gradle-plugin10
scripting10
bash10
c1110
cicd10
c1710
ag10
gradle-android-plugin10
script10
android-ndk10
sh10
shell10
gradlew10
gradle10
data-structure9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
android/ndk-samples
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Android NDK samples with Android Studio
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Mobile Developer (Android) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:48 reviews, 59 commits, 95 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Android NDK samples. Their contributions involved updating Gradle and Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) versions, incorporating the latest SDK and NDK versions, and fixing lint errors across various sample projects. Additionally, the user significantly improved the build process by adding a lint check to the CI script, simplifying the setup process, and adding a clang-format presubmit, demonstrating a focus on automation and code quality.
android-studiondkandroidkotlinandroid-ndk
landley/toybox
May 2022 - Oct 2022
toybox
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `toybox` project by fixing bugs and implementing new features in the shell component. They addressed a segfault related to variable unsetting, introduced fixes for memory leaks, and added functionality for diff line format options. Furthermore, the user enhanced the `diff` tool by handling FIFO files and added support for the `-f` option, improving its functionality.
react
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